Difference between private and reserved network.

[Steven W. Orr]

I noticed that I could not get to google the other day. My 
reserved_networks file had this entry in it:

72.0.0.0/5

and if I lookup google I get this result:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com.             20      IN      A       64.233.187.99
google.com.             20      IN      A       72.14.207.99

So it was going to the 72 address and generating MARTIAN entries in 
syslog.

Nov 27 15:32:09 saturn kernel: [FIAIF_MARTIAN]:IN= OUT=eth0 
SRC=207.172.210.41 DST=72.14.207.99 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 
ID=52746 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=54796 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

Until I understand this I have disabled the reserved_networks file. Can 
someone please explain this? Is the reserved_networks file wrong?

TIA

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